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Railway Stations In Iraq
Railway stations in Iraq include: Towns served Existing * Baghdad Central Station * Al Maqal Railway Station in Basra ---- * Bayji * Al Hadithah – junction * Al Qaim * Akashat – railhead in west Under construction * Khanaqin- Khosravi, (Under construction) Proposed * Arbil – NE – * Baghdad – C – * Umm Qasr – S – Maps UNHCR Atlas MapUN MapOn Track on line – web log showing some recent photos��excellent website with comprehensive roster of IRR locomotives; occasionally updated with news from Iraq. Iraq Railway NetworkDetailed map of railway routes in Iraq by the United Nations Joint Logistics Centre Rainer's Pages are dedicated to the old Railway Postal System of Iraq. It also shows old Iraq Railway Maps, Postal Cards and Photos. See also * Transport in Iraq * Railway stations in Jordan References External links {{Asia topic, List of railway stations in * Railway stations Iraq Railway stations A train station, railway station, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baghdad Central Station
Baghdad Central Station is the main train station in Baghdad. It links the rail network to the south and the north of Iraq. The station was built by the British to designs by J. M. Wilson, a Scot who had been an assistant to Lutyens in New Delhi and who subsequently set up a practice of his own in Baghdad. Construction started in 1948 and finished in 1953. The station is the biggest one in Iraq. History The train station was originally built by the British and it was considered as the "Jewel of Baghdad" for daily travellers. The station offered telegraph services, it had also a bank, a post office, a saloon, shopping areas and a restaurant. The station even had an office with printing presses which are still printing the train tickets. After the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, thieves snatched the station's furniture, lighting fixtures and even bathroom plumbing. Renovations A $5.9 million renovation began in 2004 and was completed in June 2006. The renovation included all-new po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraq Transport-related Lists
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to Iraq–Jordan border, the southwest and Syria to Iraq–Syria border, the west. The Capital city, capital and largest city is Baghdad. Iraq is home to diverse ethnic groups including Iraqi Arabs, Kurds, Iraqi Turkmen, Turkmens, Assyrian people, Assyrians, Armenians in Iraq, Armenians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, Iranians in Iraq, Persians and Shabaks, Shabakis with similarly diverse Geography of Iraq, geography and Wildlife of Iraq, wildlife. The vast majority of the country's 44 million residents are Muslims – the notable other faiths are Christianity in Iraq, Christianity, Yazidism, Mandaeism, Yarsanism and Zoroastrianism. The official langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Stations In Iraq
Railway stations in Iraq include: Towns served Existing * Baghdad Central Station * Al Maqal Railway Station in Basra ---- * Bayji * Al Hadithah – junction * Al Qaim * Akashat – railhead in west Under construction * Khanaqin- Khosravi, (Under construction) Proposed * Arbil – NE – * Baghdad – C – * Umm Qasr – S – Maps UNHCR Atlas MapUN MapOn Track on line – web log showing some recent photos��excellent website with comprehensive roster of IRR locomotives; occasionally updated with news from Iraq. Iraq Railway NetworkDetailed map of railway routes in Iraq by the United Nations Joint Logistics Centre Rainer's Pages are dedicated to the old Railway Postal System of Iraq. It also shows old Iraq Railway Maps, Postal Cards and Photos. See also * Transport in Iraq * Railway stations in Jordan References External links {{Asia topic, List of railway stations in * Railway stations Iraq Railway stations A train station, railway station, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Stations In Jordan
With the exception of a railway system, Jordan has a developed public and private transportation system. There are three international airports in Jordan. The Hedjaz Jordan Railway runs one passenger train a day each way. Roadways In 2009, it was estimated that Jordan had of paved highways. Some of the major highways in Jordan are: * Highway 15 (Desert Highway): connects the Syrian border with Amman and to the port city of Aqaba on the Gulf of Aqaba. It is a four-lane, double carriageway road almost on its entirety, from the Syrian border until the junction with the road to Petra. * Highway 35 (King's Highway): connects Irbid in the northern region to Aqaba, it takes the name and route of the historic King's Highway. It has four lanes on double carriageway on its stretch from Irbid until Amman. * Highway 65 (Dead Sea Highway): connects Aqaba to the northwestern region of Jordan. ** The first part of the highway (Safi-Aqaba) was constructed in 1978 as part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transport In Iraq
Transport in Iraq consists of railways, highways, waterways, pipelines, ports and harbors, marines and airports. Railways ''total:'' 2,272 km ''standard gauge:'' 2,272 km For more than two decades there have been plans for building a metro system in Baghdad. It is possible that part of the tunnels have been built, but that they are now used for military, shelter, hiding, and escaping purposes. U.N. inspectors have heard of the tunnels for years, but have not found their entrances In November, 2008, an overground service dubb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations Joint Logistics Centre
The United Nations Joint Logistics Centre (UNJLC) was created to optimise and complement the logistics capabilities of cooperating agencies within a well-defined crisis area for the benefit of the ongoing humanitarian operation. In 2005 the UNJLC was merged with the World Food Programme Logistics Coordination Unit as part of the Logistics Cluster and all UNJLC offices were disbanded in 2008. The UNJLC provides logistics support at operational planning, coordination and monitoring level. Unless specified otherwise, UN Agencies and other humanitarian bodies, which are established in the area, will continue to exercise their normal responsibilities. As a result, the UNJLC will not be involved in policy and establishment of humanitarian needs and priorities. Functions * Collecting, analyzing and disseminating logistics information relevant to the ongoing humanitarian operation, * Scheduling the movement of humanitarian cargo and relief workers within the crisis area, using commonly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umm Qasr
Umm Qasr ( ar, أم قصر, also transliterated as ''Um-qasir'', ''Um-qasser, Um Qasr'') is a port city in southern Iraq. It stands on the canalised Khawr az-Zubayr, part of the Khawr Abd Allah estuary which leads to the Persian Gulf. It is separated from the border of Kuwait by a small inlet. A bridge across the waterway linked the port with Kuwait prior to the 1991 Persian Gulf War. History Village to port Umm Qasr was originally a small fishing town, but was used as a military port on several occasions before advancing trades and jobs by building a deep-water port on the coast. It was said to have been the site of Alexander the Great's landing in Mesopotamia in 325 BC. During the Second World War a temporary port was established there by the Allies to unload supplies to dispatch to the Soviet Union. It fell back into obscurity after the war, but the government of King Faisal II sought to establish a permanent port there in the 1950s. After the Iraqi Revolution of 1958, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. In 762 CE, Baghdad was chosen as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, and became its most notable major development project. Within a short time, the city evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center of the Muslim world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions, including the House of Wisdom, as well as a multiethnic and multi-religious environment, garnered it a worldwide reputation as the "Center of Learning". Baghdad was the largest city in the world for much of the Abbasid era during the Islamic Golden Age, peaking at a population of more than a million. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khosravi, Kermanshah
Khosravi ( fa, خسروی, also Romanized as Khosravī and Khosrovī; also known as Khosrowvī, Khūsrawī, and Khūsrovī) is a village in Alvand Rural District, in the Central District of Qasr-e Shirin County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 11, in 5 families. The village is populated by Kurds. History Khosravi is more than one thousand years old and the Khosravi customs has a history of more than 100 years. On 10 May 1992, an unidentified number of Iraqi and Iranian POWs were exchanged at Khosravi border; on 19 May 1993, another 200 Iraqi POWs were released there; and on 18 August 1995, approximately 100 Iraqi POWs were released near the Iran/Iraq border of Mundharieh-Khosravi. In october 1995, Iran and Iraq agreed to exchange the remains of the troops killed from both sides during the war via Khosravi border crossing. Another POW exchange occurred in March 2003. The first group of Iranian religious tourists left for Iraq on 15 August 1998 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khanaqin
Khanaqin ( ar, خانقين; ku, خانەقین, translit=Xaneqîn) is the central city of Khanaqin District in Diyala Governorate, Iraq, near the Iranian border (8 km) on the Alwand tributary of the Diyala River. The town is populated by Kurds who speak the Southern Kurdish dialect. Khanaqin is situated on the main road which Shia pilgrims use when visiting holy Islamic cities. The city is moreover rich in oil and the first Iraqi oil refinery and oil pipeline was built nearby in 1927. The main tribes of Khanaqin include Kalhor, Feyli, Zand, Malekshahi Suramiri, Arkavazi and Zangana. The city experienced Arabization during the Saddam era, but this has been substantially reversed after the fall of the regime in 2003 and remains disputed. History During the Sassanids Khanaqin was part of Khosrow shadpiruz province. In the early 11th century, the city was under the Banu Uqayl and later the Annazids until Ibrahim Inal captured the city around 1045. Khanaqin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
